Every dollar into NASA has roughly added $3 to over $7 in direct economic output for the U.S.A.
I am with you, healthcare is a main issue that needs addressed badly. Yet, so too is NASA. The U.S should invest more into NASA than it does into its ridiculously over budgeted military.
I just submitted for new roles for a posting that closed today. Fingers crossed. As much as I hate what he's done to the agency, I still want to go back and keep making science happen.
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Our we voting to get rid of Fiat currency? If not voting wonât solve any problems. We owe 41 trillion dollars, but only 23 trillion exist. I donât understand why everyone is Trump bad. Trump didnât start this path towards complete worthless currency. If you want to blame anyone 100% it starts with JP Morgan. Woodrow Wilson bares quite a bit of responsibility as well. This problem started prior to 1913 but 1913 was main catalyst and most people will say Iâm an idiot. Apparently no one embers the golden rule. He who has the gold makes the rules. Is there anyone who thinks Trump has all the gold and is the most successful person in the world right now? Not even his supporters would argue that.
First thing they need to do is repeal Citizens United. Kneecap the billionaires. Second thing, is arrest Clarence Thomas for corruption. Kneecap the courts enabling them. Third thing they do is turn Cubaâs electricity back on.
As long as we continue to use funny money fiat currency, these problems arenât going away. Billionaires arenât the cause. They arenât helping at all. They just benefit from the current situation. Didnât cause it though.
Theyâll try to do what they ALWAYS do, fix the freaking economy, make sure people have jobs, affordable housing and return sanity to government. And Republicans will continue to do what they always do, lie, cheat, steal, enrich themselves and manipulate the gullible into returning to power in 2 years. This country is doomed because of questions like yoursđ
The dems already told you what they are going to do : open the borders back up, flood our country with the 3rd world, pay for their Healthcare and living expenses, register them all to vote, make Puerto Rico and Washington DC states so they control Senate forever, expand the Supreme Court to 16 judges who will always vote for what they want. They will codify abortion to be available in all states, no restrictions, up to the moment of birth. They will legalize euthanasia for all ages. They probably won't get around to fixing healthcare for the schmuck taxpayers because they don't give a shit. Why do you think they love euthanasia so much? Medicare for all will mean no doctors will take it. It is all geared to make sure they remain in power forever. The end of the Constitution, authoritarian government for all. Yeah you better vote blue if you want to see the end of this country.
NASA is why it happened. They got royally fucked when they canceled Vulcan simply because of a few senators who wanted to ride out the contracts from the shuttle program. The SLS is essentially a modified shuttle without the shuttle.
However NASA takes their time to ensure they launch.
In my mind, dumping gobs of money into NASA is the only way peacefully satisfy Boeing, Raytheon, and Lockheed Martin while cutting the military budget.
The U.S military is ranked 5th in the world for the highest military salaries. That is pretty good, considering there are 178 militaries in the world. You could have it worse, serve in Russia's military and just get a promise of maybe payment or a bullet to the head on payday instead. :D
Generally speaking, I wouldnât compare my salary with others around the world. It makes more sense to compare my salary with those with similar living conditions and lifestyles. Your comment is like saying âAtleast you werenât born with no arms and legsâ.
Everyone has a different situation.
I was just saying, in America, for a 10 year âemployeeâ with an undergrad degree whoâs worked long hours and weeks in less than friendly situations, my take home pay doesnât always feel commensurate to the work put-in. That said, Iâm very grateful. I have a good life.
Speaking out just to invalidate my claim is weird.
I 100% agree with you, yet, military men/women overwhelming vote Republican. And against your best interests. Giving meager "1776" payments while the very same absurd government also guts veterans affairs.
No knowledgeable American service member or veteran should EVER support a Republican, let alone whatever the fucking Republican clown show has become now....
Does NASA still launch rockets? I thought it was all being privatized. Does privatization still make the $3 to $7 direct output or is that being pocketed by billionaires now?
Hey nasa is great, Iâd still rather have healthcare for my wife and I that doesnât cost 30k/year just in premiums (have to spend another 14k for it to actually fully cover everything) over living close to a launch site
But think how well this war would be going on a lesser budget!
Even thought we crushed them on day one and by day foe they were buying the President gifts, wtf?
I definitely agree. As a species our survival is completely dependent on living in space or another planet. Thereâs a 100% chance of cataclysmic event ending most life on earth. Might be a year, might be 100 million years. It will definitely happen. The only way we ensure our survival is to get to space.
With that said I donât think people comprehend what Fiat currency really is. Thatâs the form of currency we use. I feel like the literal definition should be enough to explain why we spend so much on military. Fiat currency means currency by force. It itâs worthless nothing backed by nothing other than the threat of force. The second we stop spending the country will crash because no one will use dollars on more.
I donât agree with Fiat based currencies. Itâs great for fast growth and weathering tough storms. Itâs also very dumb. Until we crash the currency we are stuck spending more on the survival of our monetary system than we are the survival of our citizens. Only 2 things can change that. Change the currency, or cease to exist altogether. Honestly Iâd be cool with 5 years of extremely hard times to help guarantee the survival of the human race.
Is the "direct economic output" in the room with us right now? Amazing what people make up to defend the spending of industries they think are cool. Now do launch emissions! Only 3 bad air molecules for each 7 good ones?
Me agreeing with you while rubbing my hands and licking my lips and preparing my army to invade that small country that supplies America with microchips and cookies đ
Oh please...we all know what happens when a country neglects its military. All these clueless people crying about military spending will be the first to cry the loudest once costs gro up on inports once America cuts spending on military and those smaller countries that rally on our military start to get swallowed up by larger nations with bigger militaries. It's not presumption but Facts.
It is only right-wing Americans who think anyone in the world "needs" their military. Keep parroting the typical U.S military industrial complexes absurd talking points. The rest of the world is moving on from the U.S with good reason.
Sure, sure buddy. Show us all how narrow minded you are by putting a label on people who respectfully disagree with you. Or maybe your one of those dictators who don't want American presence in the country you wanna invade? If not you might just be one of those types who blame America when as soon as it pulls its forces out of that country, the country immediately becomes a war zone. Dmn if you do and dmn if you don't or as I've come to see and understand it, the lesser of two evils.
I donât think they understand that the issue with healthcare isnât the government, directly.. itâs due to healthcare being privatized, and not regulated. If they capped what our doctors could charge us/insurance, insurance would be sooooo much cheaper.
Or, simply go with a State ran insurance company that allows its board of directors to be doctors themselves. While getting rid of most private insurance altogether. You know, like a Universal Health care system... While giving either States or the U.S Fed centralized authority over prescription drugs. This would allow for a massive collective bargaining power that would force pharmaceuticals companies to lower prices on drugs.
It would cost us an absurd amount of money as tax payers to transition to a universal healthcare system. Itâs nice to say on paper, but nooneâs going to âtakeâ the hospitals and practices from these mega medical companies. They would have to be bought out in order to let it be state ran. Who is paying for these properties? The tax payers.. for their âUHCSâ
"It would cost us an absurd amount of money as tax payers to transition to a universal healthcare system. "
This is incorrect, and a huge misconception made by Americans. Americans already pay over twice as much as the next nation per person for Healthcare, as is. Where many studies show that going to a Universal Healthcare system would save U.S taxpayers between 500 billion to over 1 trillion dollars annually. As, you Americans spend so much money on the middle man - the insurer, who takes up so much cost in administrative fees. Remove the "middle man" and costs go down drastically, as would health outcomes across the U.S increase.
"Who is paying for these properties? The tax payers.."
Again, no, just like Canada does. 96% of Canadian hospitals are owned and operated independently by non-profit foundations, religious orders, or community boards rather than directly by the government. Where a board of actual doctors dictates, from province to province, on how the provincial ran medical insurance is ran, what equipment is needed, and, of course, a centralized governance on prescription drugs, too. This is why insulin in Canada is on average 12 dollars a dose, compared to 90 dollars in the U.S.
Fun fact, the U.S isn't even in the top 10 best country's in the world for healthcare and health outcomes - far from it. Whereas, regardless of the propaganda you may here, Canada is in the top 10 best countries in the world for healthcare and outcomes.
Youâre missing the critical part of âmost healthcare facilities are PRIVATELY OWNEDâ.. that is the current status. Please map out how THAT particular part is to be taken care of.
As I already said, the U.S has more charitable foundations than most of the world combined and a ridiculous amount of religious institutions that are wealthy enough to take over and buy those properties outright.
Religion and state are separate, so church canât purchase a for profit organization for the government to run (âshouldnâtâ be able to, although thatâs a very muddy relationship)
You could put all those charityâs together and still be very short of the 6 trillion dollars the healthcare industry is âworthâ in the US
6 trillion isn't the value of your healthcare, it is what you spend. Spending for a Universal Healthcare system would be vastly cheaper. As I already discussed, no more middle man. No more crazy bureaucracy to move through and Medicare, Medicaid and the VA (and whatever other federal healthcare institutions the U.S has) would no longer exist under such a system. Further reducing the bureaucracy and costs by 100's of billions.
Again, as I said above, 96% of Canada's hospitals are privately owned by non-profit organizations, There is no reason why the U.S couldn't do the same.
And donât mistake what Iâm saying, Iâm 10000% for healthcare reform in the US. Iâm just stating it wonât be as easy as most people seem to think.
They started capping what doctors could charge decades ago. Look up âcapitated paymentsâ. Itâs the insurance companies that scrape 30% off the top.
This is called a Strawman argument. No where did I mention anything about Elon. Nor did I mention anything about the rocket that was launched in the photo. Thirdly, Elon leases from NASA, so technically Elon cannot pocket it "all".
Healthcare and programs like SNAP and USAID also increase(d) direct economic output for the US. Unfortunately there are tens of millions of people who vote for politicians whose only goal is to diminish the USâs economic strength just to win fake culture wars.
Only moronic right-wing Americans think other countries need them. I am Canadian, and most Canadians would agree, Russia and China aren't our greatest threats right now - The USA is under the orange turd.
Come North and try to annex us. You will find that likely yourself won't be alive to see the end of that outcome.
Well, youâre willfully unarmed, so⊠wouldnât be hard. The thing is, why would we want you? Iâve never understood that part at all. I mean thereâs the vast reserves of maple syrup, which is delicious, but other than that, your defense is that itâs cold in some places. We get that defensive benefit for free by your land existing. The rest of the package is some displaced cheese curd eating surrender monkey descendants into communism. Iâll pass. Globally speaking, youâre like the fat chick that doesnât bathe nearly often enough talking about how bad everyone wants you.
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u/GreatAffect9454 1d ago
Every dollar into NASA has roughly added $3 to over $7 in direct economic output for the U.S.A.
I am with you, healthcare is a main issue that needs addressed badly. Yet, so too is NASA. The U.S should invest more into NASA than it does into its ridiculously over budgeted military.